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U.S. & Canadian Media in South Asia

A listing of full-time correspondents and producers for North American media outlets in South Asia. Stringers not included.
Most U.S. correspondents cover the Subcontinent from their stations
in New Delhi, unless otherwise specified. Business publications are increasingly
posting people in Mumbai as well.

Also see:

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Last updated: Nov. 15, 2004

Full-time correspondents in South Asia;
New Delhi, unless otherwise specified.

AP-Dow Jones
1997-2004: Ed Lane (now moved to AFP in Pakistan)

The Associated Press
New Delhi
Bureau Chiefs
2000-present: Beth Duff-Brown
1993-2000: Arthur Max
1987-93: Earleen Fisher
1984-87: Victoria Graham
1977-84: Gene Kramer
1968-77: Myron Belkind
1966-68: Joe McGowan
1964-66: Conrad Fink
1962-64: Henry Bradsher
1961-62: Jim Becker
1958-61: Watson Sims
1956-58: Charles Lane
1950-56: Harold Milks
1948-50: Marc Purdue
1947-48: Milton Kelly
1942-47: Preston Grover

Non-bureau chiefs
1999-present: Laurinda Keys, news editor
Neelesh Misra, Ramola Talwar, correspondents
1997-1999: Donna Bryson, news editor
Sherwin Crasto, John McConnico, photographers
1980-?: Jim Hatton
1977-80: Barry Shlachter
?-1977: Paul Chutkow
1951-54: Selig S. Harrison
TK: Ed Cody
TK: Jim Markham

Islamabad
1997-present: Kathy Gannon, bureau chief
1968-1973: Arnold Zeitlin
1982-?: Richard Bill
1980-82: Barry Shlachter (had reopened the bureau after it was shut down in 1976; in 1982, he was expelled by Gen. Zia ul-Haq)

Current international editor: Sally Jacobsen; Nick Tatro and Larry Heinzerling, deputies

APTN: Associated Press Television Network
Islamabad
Andy Drake, senior producer for South Asia

Business Week
Mumbai
1996-present: Manjeet Kripalani
Bureau opened: 1998

Bloomberg
Mumbai
1999-present: Subramaniam Sharma, bureau chief
Michael Hall
Anil Penna
Gautam Chakravorthy
Mrinalini Datta
Cherian Thomas
Ravil Shirodkar
Ramya Venugopal
Delhi

Nabeel Mohideen, bureau chief
Bharat Ahluwalia
Arijit Ghosh
Anindya Mukherjee
Abhay Singh

Baltimore Sun
1962-63 & 1965-67: James Keat
(Keat was first a Ford Foundation scholar at the Delhi School of Economics in 1955-56; then was Sun correspondent during the Indo-China war and its aftermath in 1962-63, returning as bureau chief 1966-67; he went on to serve as the paper's first foreign editor, 1969-71, and assistant managing editor from 1975 to 1991; he retired as an editor on the editorial page in 1995).

Chicago Daily News
1947-50: Philips Talbot

Chicago Tribune
1998-present: Uli Schmetzer

CNN
New Delhi
1999-present: Satinder Bindra
1996-1998: Anita Pratap
Feb. 1992 - May 1996: Ashis Ray, founding SA bureau chief

Islamabad
2001-present: Ash-Har Quraishi

Christian Science Monitor
1999-present: Robert Marquand
Current foreign editor: Clayton Jones

CTV TV (Canadian TV)
2001-present: Matt McClure

Los Angeles Times
2000-present: Paul Watson
1998-2000: Dexter Filkins
(Colombo: Waruna Karunatilake)
1994-98: John-Thor Dahlburg
1991-94: Bob Drogin
1988-91: Mark Fineman (died Sept. 2003)
Fineman was also the Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent in South Asia 1982-85
Fineman LAT obit; Inquirer obit
1986-88: Rone Tempest
1980-82: Tyler Marshall
1976-79: Sharon Rosenhause

1966: bureau opened

Current foreign editor: Marjoie Miller
1996-August 2002: Simon Li


Reporting in South Asia

Full-time correspondents in South Asia;
New Delhi, unless otherwise specified.

National Public Radio
1998 - present: Michael Sullivan
1994-96: Eric Weiner

Current Asia editor: Ted Clark
Current senior foreign editor: Loren Jenkins

Newsweek
1997-present: Tony Clifton, bureau chief
Sudeep Majumdar

International editors:
Fareed Zakaria, editor
Marcus Mabry, deputy
Managing editor, international editions: Nisid Hajari

The New York Times
Jan. 2005 - ?: Somini Sengupta
July 2002-Dec. 2004: David Rohde & Amy Waldman
Bangalore correspondent: Saritha Rai (1999-present)
1998-2002: Barry Bearak & Celia Dugger
1994-1998: John Burns
1991-1994: Edward Gargan
1988-91: Barbara Crossette
1985-89: Steve Weisman
1982-1985: Bernard Weinraub
1980-82: Michael T. Kaufmann
1975-79: Bill Borders
1971-1974: Sydney Schanberg

TK: Joseph Lelyveld
TK: J. Anthony Lukas
TK: A.M. Rosenthal
1947-1949: Robert Trumbull

Current foreign editor: Roger Cohen

Time
2000-present: Michael Fathers
1995-2000: Maseeh Raman & Meenakshi Ganguly
1990-95: Anita Pratap
1977-80: Larry Malkin
TK: Ned Desmond
TK: Jim Greenfield

Current international editor: Charles Alexander

Toronto Globe & Mail
Bureau closed 2000
1991 - 2000: John Stackhouse
1965-67: David van Praag

UPI
1977-80: Susan Green, bureau chief
1947-50: James W. Michaels

The Wall Street Journal
2003-present: Jay Solomon, Delhi
2004-present: Eric Bellman, Mumbai
2004-present: John Larkin, Mumbai
2002-2004: Joanna Slater, Mumbai
2000-2001: Daniel Pearl (Mumbai)
Jesse Pesta (Delhi)
Rasul Bailay, reporting asst
1997-2000: Jonathan Karp & Miriam Jordan
1994-97: Miriam Jordan

1991-1994: Marchus W. Brauchli

1984-1986: James Sterba


Current foreign editor: John Bussey, deputy managing editor
Laura Western, foreign news editor
Peter Fritsch, bureau chief for Southeast and South  Asia, based in Singapore 
[SAJA member was WSJ assistant foreign editor 1998-2000: Krishnan Anantharaman]

The Washington Post
2002-present: John Lancaster
Rama Lakshmi, contributor
1999-2002: Pamela Constable
1996-99: Kenneth Cooper

1992-96 Molly Moore & John Ward Anderson
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989-92: Steve Coll
1986-89:Richard Weintraub
1985-87: Elisabeth Bumiller (Style section)
1982-86 William Claiborne
6/75-9/79: dormant
1972-75 Lewis Simons (expelled June 1975)
7/68-7/72: dormant

1967-68: Bernard Nossiter
1979 Stuart Auerbach
1965-67: Warren Unna
1962-65: Selig S. Harrison
Current foriegn editor: Philip Bennett, asst. managing editor/foreign

Voice of America
1977-80: Fred Brown, bureau chief

 

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